Good luck on preventing your wife from storing things in YOUR space. After 31 years I have given up trying to change my wife. Like yours she seems to think that anytime she needs to move something out of the house, my shop is the most logical place to store it. Like Dadoo I get yelled at for bringing sawdust into the finished part of the basement. But this only gives her an excuse to go through the shop and rearrange everything to “make it more organized”. But then, of course, I can’t get to anything once she is finished.

So good luck on keeping your shop space open so that you can work in it. If you find a way to keep your wife out of it let me know I would be interested in that as well. :)

By the way Happy Birthday.

-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine

I have a door from the kitchen to the garage (shop). My wife used to throw things out the door into my shop. Empty boxes, bags of books, my sons school stuff, you name it. One day as she did it I gathered it and waited for her to go to the store then put it all in her very own dedicated sewing room. This room that is her pride and joy. She’s not stupid, so there was not a lot of explaining to do. If anything goes into the garage now we decuss it first and I have veto power !!! She can find room for it in the house or throw it away.

happy birthday,just had my 35th a couple weeks ago. the shed was a great idea and worked well for me. as for my wife coming in the shop that is not a problem for me she hates loud noise,and if it isn’t a tool running it’s the radio.